India one of the least racially tolerant countries?

[Anonymous]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/15/a-fascinating-map-of-the-worlds-most-and-least-racially-tolerant-countries/?hpid=z1

As soon as I saw this map at the Post's website, it sounded familiar...my Indian in-laws are profoundly racist...but I found it interesting to see the world map. Why is that so?

[Anonymous]

I'm half Indian, and while Indians can absolutely be pretty darned racist, I'm not sure I buy that map. FWIW the white side of my family is also quite racist. Although on both sides, I think the generations are more a factor than country of origin.

In Europe and parts of the US, I think people are often more conditioned to be polite - which doesn't diminish their racism, but it's in either masked or in passive-aggressive form. I wouldn't trust a lot of the answers from traditionally "Western" places. A lot of them are probably like "in theory a neighbor of a different race wouldn't bother me, but internally, it probably would." I suspect a lot of racial sugarcoating...

[Anonymous]

Considering how dark Indians are racism is entertaining to me.

[Anonymous]

Lots of homogenous countries are very racist or classist.

[Anonymous]

The question should have been: If your son or daughter married a person of another race....
It is easy to say, that you could live next door, but ask a white Argentine if their dd married a black man, the answer would be something else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Considering how dark Indians are racism is entertaining to me.

Well, that's one way of admitting you know nothing about demographics and ethnic populations in India.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asian_ethnic_groups

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Considering how dark Indians are racism is entertaining to me.

Well, that's one way of admitting you know nothing about demographics and ethnic populations in India.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asian_ethnic_groups

and you must be one of these Indians who runs around telling people that you're Caucasian,...or white.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Considering how dark Indians are racism is entertaining to me.

Well, that's one way of admitting you know nothing about demographics and ethnic populations in India.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asian_ethnic_groups

and you must be one of these Indians who runs around telling people that you're Caucasian,...or white.

Nope - sorry to burst your bubble of ignorance, but I posted earlier in this thread that i'm mixed - the ambiguity of that suffices for me

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Considering how dark Indians are racism is entertaining to me.

Well, that's one way of admitting you know nothing about demographics and ethnic populations in India.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asian_ethnic_groups

and you must be one of these Indians who runs around telling people that you're Caucasian,...or white.

No, definitely not. Although I did find it amusing that when I first got my MD drivers license in the 90s, they listed me as 'Caucasian' (South Asian was explicitly listed under Caucasian) with brown hair and eyes. If I had committed a crime, they definitely would have had a hard time tracking me down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of homogenous countries are very racist or classist.

Agree with this. Many people in my extended family have never seen a black person in real life. Of course they would be a little ignorant. WRT white people, well...there's not a great history there, so there's probably some mistrust. I'm not saying it's ok, but people in countries like India have even less of a chance to have stereotypes proven wrong than we do here, in segregated America.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Considering how dark Indians are racism is entertaining to me.

Well, that's one way of admitting you know nothing about demographics and ethnic populations in India.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asian_ethnic_groups

and you must be one of these Indians who runs around telling people that you're Caucasian,...or white.

Indian here that doesn't go around saying I'm Caucasian, although technically it is true. The Supreme Court decided in 1923 to disregard the anthropological definition of Caucasian because it was easier for "lay people" (quoted directly from the Supreme Court proceedings) to regard to the term as white skin color only. This doesn't change the actual true definition, just white people taking a fact and twisting it to make it "their own" yet again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Considering how dark Indians are racism is entertaining to me.

Well, that's one way of admitting you know nothing about demographics and ethnic populations in India.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asian_ethnic_groups

and you must be one of these Indians who runs around telling people that you're Caucasian,...or white.

No, definitely not. Although I did find it amusing that when I first got my MD drivers license in the 90s, they listed me as 'Caucasian' (South Asian was explicitly listed under Caucasian) with brown hair and eyes. If I had committed a crime, they definitely would have had a hard time tracking me down.

lol. I'm not proud to say that gotten several traffic tickets in the last 20 years and they always list me as White on the ticket! I'm obviously not, but this happened multiple times in different cities by black, white and hispanic officers. Never understood this and always thought to myself WTF??

[Anonymous]

That's just LE trying to rig their numbers for stopping people for DWB!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Considering how dark Indians are racism is entertaining to me.

Well, that's one way of admitting you know nothing about demographics and ethnic populations in India.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asian_ethnic_groups

and you must be one of these Indians who runs around telling people that you're Caucasian,...or white.

Indian here that doesn't go around saying I'm Caucasian, although technically it is true. The Supreme Court decided in 1923 to disregard the anthropological definition of Caucasian because it was easier for "lay people" (quoted directly from the Supreme Court proceedings) to regard to the term as white skin color only. This doesn't change the actual true definition, just white people taking a fact and twisting it to make it "their own" yet again.

Caucasian is not white, that is my point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Considering how dark Indians are racism is entertaining to me.

Well, that's one way of admitting you know nothing about demographics and ethnic populations in India.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asian_ethnic_groups

and you must be one of these Indians who runs around telling people that you're Caucasian,...or white.

Indian here that doesn't go around saying I'm Caucasian, although technically it is true. The Supreme Court decided in 1923 to disregard the anthropological definition of Caucasian because it was easier for "lay people" (quoted directly from the Supreme Court proceedings) to regard to the term as white skin color only. This doesn't change the actual true definition, just white people taking a fact and twisting it to make it "their own" yet again.

Caucasian is not white, that is my point.

What is "white?"